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By Cliff Rold - I’ve written so much about this fight for the last couple years that I’m sort of at a loss for words now that it’s here. Sort of.
Sometime after 2 AM Sunday morning in Cardiff, Wales (9 PM EST/6 PM PST on HBO in the States), the opening bell will clang, a potentially great fight will ensue, and an entire weight division, 23 years after it crowned its first true champion, finishes its coming of age.
World Super Middleweight Champion Joe Calzaghe (43-0, 32 KO, WBO titlist) of Cardiff.
#1 Contender Mikkel Kessler (39-0, 29 KO, WBC/WBA titlist) of Copenhagen, Denmark.
If you love boxing, this is as good as it gets.
If you’ve followed the journey of the 168 lb. weight class to this moment, it’s a little bit better. Written off almost since its birth as an unnecessary frivolity thrust upon the world by greedy sanctioning bodies, time has done for the Super Middleweights what it does for any weight class.
Time has given the division history…history to look back to and build upon in the moments leading up to the first jab and last hook thrown from Calzaghe and Kessler. There have been big fights before at 168, fights like Ray Leonard-Tommy Hearns II, Roy Jones-James Toney and Nigel Benn-Chris Eubank II, but this might turn out to be the biggest and best of them all. [details]
Sometime after 2 AM Sunday morning in Cardiff, Wales (9 PM EST/6 PM PST on HBO in the States), the opening bell will clang, a potentially great fight will ensue, and an entire weight division, 23 years after it crowned its first true champion, finishes its coming of age.
World Super Middleweight Champion Joe Calzaghe (43-0, 32 KO, WBO titlist) of Cardiff.
#1 Contender Mikkel Kessler (39-0, 29 KO, WBC/WBA titlist) of Copenhagen, Denmark.
If you love boxing, this is as good as it gets.
If you’ve followed the journey of the 168 lb. weight class to this moment, it’s a little bit better. Written off almost since its birth as an unnecessary frivolity thrust upon the world by greedy sanctioning bodies, time has done for the Super Middleweights what it does for any weight class.
Time has given the division history…history to look back to and build upon in the moments leading up to the first jab and last hook thrown from Calzaghe and Kessler. There have been big fights before at 168, fights like Ray Leonard-Tommy Hearns II, Roy Jones-James Toney and Nigel Benn-Chris Eubank II, but this might turn out to be the biggest and best of them all. [details]
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